Family Support Worker

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Family Liaison Officer to join Airedale Academy. This key role will focus on improving student attendance through effective partnership working with families, students and staff, ensuring every young person has the opportunity to thrive and achieve their full potential. You will: Promote excellent levels of attendance across the Academy. Work alongside Attendance Improvement Officers and senior leaders to implement academy wide attendance strategies. Engage with parents and families via home visits or on-site visits to explore and offer support to improve student attendance. Support and challenge both pupils and their families to improve their attendance. Contribute the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of pupils who attend the academy. Liaise with external agencies, to support pupils and their families to improve attendance. You will be/have: A confident and effective communicator. Relentless in your drive to improve attendance, thinking outside of the box to develop attendance initiatives, working in partnership with other colleagues and stakeholders where appropriate. Experience of working with families with complex needs. Excellent literacy, numeracy and IT skills. Proven organisational, time management and problem solving skills. The ability to deal with emotion packed situations in a calm and professional manner. Ability to relate well to children and adults. Flexible and adaptable with a ‘can do’ attitude. As a valued colleague within our Trust, you can expect: Unwavering support and a culture of collaboration: you will benefit from exceptional support from our executive leaders, leadership teams and dedicated Trust specialists across key areas including curriculum development, safeguarding, inclusion, governance, HR, finance, estates, IT and compliance. At Castleford Trust collaboration is at the heart of everything we do - your success is our shared success. Wellbeing and Community: from Day 1 your wellbeing matters to us. You will have access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family members. Throughout our local community you will be able to join local fitness and swimming facilities at a discounted rate, and each year be able to take advantage of our onsite health checks. We regularly review and update our services to meet the needs of colleagues at all stages in their life and careers. Working together to achieve excellence for all: all the academies within the Trust have a strong moral purpose and seek to have a positive impact on the communities that they serve and to support families to overcome any social disadvantage. We are deeply committed to our values of Care, Aspire and Succeed and have very high expectations and aspirations for pupils and colleagues alike. Closing date for Applications: Providing suitable interest, the closing date for applications is 8.00 am on Tuesday 25th August 2026 with interviews taking place shortly afterwards. References: References will be taken up shortly after shortlisting and prior to interview using the contact details you supply on your application. Equal Opportunities: Castleford Trust is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnership. Castleford Trust welcomes applications from anyone who meets the criteria for the role. Safeguarding and DBS Clearance: Castleford Trust are committed to promoting safeguarding and the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Therefore, all appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks and an enhanced DBS check. All completed application forms should be submitted through the My New Term Portal https://mynewterm.com/candidate-registration